Dealer Lisa Cooley Quietly Closes Her Lower East Side Gallery After Eight Years

New York dealer Lisa Cooley, widely considered an art world pioneer for opening one of the first galleries on the Lower East Side some eight years ago, has quietly closed her gallery with the final show of “Jeff Witscher: August,” which closed on August 26.

She announced the end of her “public program” via an email on Sunday night.

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Cooley thanked collectors, curators and critics for supporting the gallery and included a lengthy list of artists she has shown, from Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Ed Atkins to Maureen Gallace and Rachel Harrison as well as B. Wurtz, Amy Yao and C. Specer Yeh. Cooley supplies no specific reason for the closure.

She did hint at a bright future, though: “Although this chapter is ending, another one is right around the corner—more sustainable, more rewarding, and more interesting. In my mind, this change will continue and extend the direction of the recent gallery program. Stay tuned.” She didn’t immediately respond to a request for further comment.